My creative publications include:

  • Various journals 2000-2004 including Rain Dog, Skald, The Coffee House, power of the word.com, Aabye, Nerve, Poetry Life
  • “Foreign Tastes” in ‘Out of Fashion: an anthology of poems’ edited by Carol Ann Duffy, (2005) Faber and Faber, UK
  • “Straight Ahead” by Clare Shaw, Bloodaxe, 2006
  • “Final Night”, Daily Mirror 2007
  • “The No Baby Poem” in “Answering Back: an anthology of poems’ edited by Carol Ann Duffy, (2007) Faber and Faber, UK
  • “It could have been” in “Exit Wounds – the New War Poetry”. The Guardian, July 25th 2009
  • “Mother” in “Some Girls’ Mothers” edited by Anne Caldwell, Route 2008 

 

 Some of my favourite readings and performances:

2002 – 2003:  a series of performances at ‘Carol Ann Duffy and Friends’at the        

Manchester Royal Exchange Theatre.

2004 - ongoing: guest reader at various Arvon Foundation residential centres

2004: reader and featured poet in the MasterClass at the Aldeburgh Poetry

Festival

2005: reader at the Sheffield Literature Festival

2006: reader at Lancaster Litfest

2007: reader at Cheltenham Literature Festval

2007: reader at “Luke Wright’s Poetry Party”, Edinburgh Fringe Festival

2007: reader at Bristol Poetry Festival

2007: reader at Manchester Literature Festival

2007 – ongoing: guest reader and workshop facilitator at Ty Newydd, National Writer’s Centre for Wales

2008-2010: the ‘Some Girls’ Mothers’ Tour – gigs across the UK

2009: reader at a “Poem and a Pint” in Cumbria

2009: tutor at Ty Newydd school’s course

2010: reader at the Dorothy Wordsworth Festival of Women’s Poetry

2010: reader at the Poetry Garden Party, Manchester

 

 

A selection of the workshops I’ve facilitated:

2002-2005: regular guest facilitator at Manchester Survivor’s Poetry

2003-2006: “Writing the Self”: annual weekend residentials at Women’s Holiday Centre, Horton-in Ribblesdale

2008: “Giant Personalities” writing workshop at Personality Plus Creative Personalities event, Leeds Carriageworks

2009: tutor for school’s residential week at Ty Newydd, National Writer’s Centre for Wales

2009-2010: “Some Girl’s Mothers” workshop facilitator on our world tour 

2009: “Finding Magic in the Ordinary”, workshop for Barnsley Signposts

 

And some other work:

2001: adapted and performed in ‘1000 Murdered Girls’, a collaborative production based on the poetry of Greek women resistance fighters. Staged at the Masque Theatre, Liverpool.

2007-2008: mentor in Lancaster Litfest project

2008: “That’s not the way to do it!”: a play in five acts by Clare Shaw, was performed at the Leeds Carriageworks by Shoestring Theatre